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Hela

Hela is the alternative form of Hel.

Hela is the alternative form of Elu.

Meaning of Hel

Proper noun (1)

Hel

  1. (Norse) The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða.
  2. (Norse) The realm of the dead who did not die in combat, ruled by the goddess and located in Niflheim (one of the Nine Realms).
    Synonyms:
    Helheim

Proper noun (2)

Hel

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Helen.
    • They call me Hel, they call me Stacey / They call me "her", they call me Jane2007, Jules De Martino, Katie White, “That's Not My Name”, performed by The Ting Tings

Meaning of Elu

Proper noun

Elu

  1. the ancestral form of Sinhalese, the Sinhala language, a Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE.

Phrases with Hela

Questions about Hela

What is Hela the alternative form of?
Hela is the alternative form of Hel.

Words near Hela in the dictionary

  1. Hektorian
  2. Hel
  3. hel bent
  4. hel-bent
  5. hel-shoes
  6. Hela
  7. HeLa cell
  8. HeLa cells
  9. helado
  10. helados
  11. Helaegon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hela (page history and authors); Hel (page history and authors); Elu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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